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Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

Wake up to your world in 2 minutes.

Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

Executive produced by Zoe Saldana (who will be the subject of one episode), a celebrity travels back to their hometown to pay tribute to the one person from their past (before they were famous) who helped change their life by giving them an over-the-top, heart-felt surprise.

Enter the graceful but competitive world of ballet through the eyes of executive producer, Sarah Jessica Parker. This behind-the-scenes docudrama reveals what it takes to perform on the ultimate stage, the New York City Ballet. Catch NYCB on stage at Lincoln Center.

Park Bench is a new kind of "talking show" straight from the mind of born and bred New Yorker and host, Steve Buscemi.

Patti Moreno: Steve can I ask you why did you decide to install an eco-lawn here?

Steve: First off, it is environmentally friendly. It is maintenance free. This lawn I do not fertilize. I don’t cut. I don’t water. It’s drought resistant, it’s insect resistant. It seems that the more you walk on it, the more it loves it and it just didn’t exactly what it’s suppose to do.

Patti Moreno: I’m planting an eco-lawn. It’s the ultimate low maintenance lawn seed perfect for the urban landscape. It’s made up of seven different varieties of fescue grass and fescue grasses require 75% less water than a traditional lawn. What’s great about eco-lawn and the fescue grasses is that it can grow in shape. It can also grow in soils that are pretty poor, that are rocky or sandy. This area right here is the perfect place to actually plant this eco-lawn. It is going to look beautiful.

You do want to keep in mind that it’s multi phase process so phase one is obviously preparing the ground for actually planting the seed and since we’re basically starting from scratch here I’m just breaking off all of the debris, any twigs, any sort of little pieces of rock. I’m also scouring the earth a little bit and that’s really going to help when I lay down the seed.

What’s going to happen is the grass is going to grow in the spring but there are going to be patches where the seed hasn’t exactly taken home. So as it’s growing I’m going to take a look at those patches and I’m going to fill them in with some more eco seed.

It’s going to take about 7 to 15 days for your eco-lawn to start germinating but in the mean time you want to make sure that you water it. Now, if you decide you want to water it once a day then you have to be consistent throughout that first month. We are going to pretty, regularly go through our lawn and any leaves that will fall in we want to make sure that we lightly rake them up. We don’t want to disturb the soil, we don’t want to disturb the seeds but we do want to remove any of those leaves while this lawn is establishing itself.

Basic rule of thumb with an eco-lawn is that it’s quick to germinate but slow to grow. So your lawn is going to be relatively short for a longer period of time. So, you’re not going to need to mow as often or at all and as soon as it grows to a certain height about five inches it just starts flopping over and it is beautiful. This grass seed can be spread all the way around trees, hedges anywhere that you would want grass.

Now, for those of you who already have an existing lawn and want to convert it into an eco-lawn, the first thing is you’re going to have to do is mow, and you want to mow it down as low as you can go. Then you’re going to take it, and you’re going to rake it, and you’re going to rake all of that including any twigs or any other debris. So I’ve got my push mower here and in this section I’ve got a pretty good amount of grass growing here so I’m going to take my push mower and I’m going to mow this whole area. The best part for me is that it’s fun.

If you have an area that’s really full of weeds what you can do is you can just go through with the mower and mow them down as low as you can get them or what you can do is you can go through and just pull them up by hand.

You can also of course use an organic herbicide to get rid of any of those weeds but I’m not going to spend the time or the money to do that. I’m just going to go through and get that extra workout and pull all these weeds up myself. Then I’m going to go through and rake them all up and pop them in the compost bin.

I’ve got my eco-lawn seed here and this historic moment is now happening. I’m installing my eco-friendly grass seed. Initially what you want to do is you want to use a 100% of the recommended amount faced on the square footage that you have. A five pound bag of seed covers around the thousand square feet.

I’m using this hand spreader which is working beautifully but if you have a larger area to cover you can use a push product or you can do it manually. I’m just going through and making sure that I cover my whole lawn evenly with seed. In order to make sure that the seeds and the soil have maximum contact you can rake lightly, you can also stomp on the soil with your feet. You can also take this board like I have here and you can stomp away. You can also choose the traditional option of the lawn roller.

Since I’m installing the lawn in the fall I may now have to be really diligent about raking up any leaves that are going to be falling off the trees. I want to make sure that my eco lawn is established evenly throughout all of my yard.

I finish spreading all of my eco-lawn seed. I am so excited to see it germinating and growing and filling in my front yard here. Now the most important thing that you want to remember at this stage is you want to be consistent with your watering. So if you’re going to water it once a day you want to make sure that you water it once a day throughout the first month and pretty soon you’ll have your own established eco-lawn.

Urban Sustainable Living is published by Patti Moreno the Garden Girl. She started gardening in 1998, as a way to not only eat healthier, but also to lose the weight that she had gained during her recent pregnancy. Her frequent shopping trips to the gardening supply aisles of a local home improvement warehouse earned her the nickname Garden Girl from one of the stores sales associates. After much trial and error, Patti was able to transform the backyard of her Boston home into an in-town garden that now produces almost all of the food her family eats. Her farmette has become a focal point within her inner-city community, a place where she shares her knowledge and passion for a concept she calls Urban Sustainable Living with hundreds of her neighbors, young and old alike. Patti's success serves to encourage both city-dwellers and suburbanites to take full advantage of their decks, patios, balconies, rooftops, even indoor bookshelves and turn them into sustainable gardens